How to make Delicious braised southern, soul food style kale greens seasoned with smoked turkey, peppers, onions, and more!
Usually when I’m requested to share a southern greens recipe, It’s for collards , turnips, or mustard greens. However, lately a lot of my readers have been asking me if I had a southern style kale recipe. I actually have several southern style kale recipes, however in this post, I’m going to share my braised southern style kale recipe!
This braised kale is as pretty as it is delicious. I used a lot of colorful ingredients to please the eyes as well as the taste buds. There’s plenty of sweet red bell peppers, flavorful onions, and spicy jalapeños peppers.
Try serving these greens with my traditional southern fried chicken, and southern potato salad. If you want dessert, follow up with my soul food style peach cobbler!
Braised Southern Style Kale
This delicious southern-style side dish of braised kale is packed with delicious flavors like sweet red bell peppers, flavorful onions, and spicy jalapeños peppers. Perfect served with fried chicken!
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 35 minutes
Ingredients
- 2.5 lbs rainbow kale washed & cut
- 1 cup carrot matchsticks
- 1.5 lb smoked turkey leg wing, or tail
- 1 medium yellow onion diced
- 1 large red bell pepper diced
- 1/4 cup sliced jalapeños jared of fresh
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 2 tbsp white or apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tsp seasoning salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 32 ounces chicken broth
- 2 cups water
Instructions
- Put the smoked turkey in a large pot, then pour in the chicken broth.
- Cover, and boil the smoked turkey over medium high heat for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Add in the 2 cups of water, then start adding the kale, and stir.
- Once all the kale is in the pot, add in the carrots, red peppers, jalapeños, onions, and garlic.
- Stir the ingredients, then sprinkle in the sugar, seasoning salt, and black pepper.
- Add in the apple cider vinegar, and stir.
- Reduce the heat to low medium, and cover the pot.
- Let simmer for 1 hour.
- Serve and enjoy!
I grow my own Swiss Chard and I also love steamed spinich. But this old gal does NOT know what Kale is – or
even what it looks like before cooking. I’m only 84 and still learning.
Hi Grandma Bobbie! Kale looks similar to swiss chard! You can use swiss chard instead of kale if you’d like 🙂
My Sister in law made this and I was blown away. I’m so glad she shared the recipe with me. And now I can be consistent with an awesome batch of greens! Thank you for sharing your culinary talent with us all
Thanks you both for trying my recipe!
I made this and it was fantastic!! I made no changes and everyone loved it!!! I ended up making it for both Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!
Thanks so much for trying my recipe Angelique! Such a beautiful name!!
OMG!!! Rosieee!! I made my Kale Greens today and they are awesome! Hubby and I wanted someone different and When I tell you my husband and I are hooked… gurrrlll! Thank you so much for all you do! Me finding your blog/website is a true blessing. Thank you Thank You!!
Interesting take in adding sugar to greens will try this over the weekend.